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Our campaign is the opposite of 'competence.'
— William J. Clinton
Rather than incorporating study into life, I've done the opposite. I've turned life into study. Where events take me? That's what I dive in to learn.
— Silver RavenWolf
Cultivated people foster what is good in others,not what is bad.
Petty people do the opposite. — Confucius
Love is the unification of two equal opposites to create new love." ~ Amunhotep El Bey
— Amunhotep El Bey
I am against limitations like perspective. Perspective is illusion, it's the opposite of presence, and art is presence.
— Pierre Soulages
It's a rule worth having in mind. Income almost always flows along the same axis as power but in the opposite direction.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
To mention honor was to suggest its opposite.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
Worry is the opposite of power.
— Bryant McGill
There is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it
— Eric Hoffer
Within every adversity is an equal and opposite benefit.
— Napoleon Hill
An erudite is someone who displays less than he knows; a journalist or consultant the opposite.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Look at government programs for the past fifty years. Every single one - except warfare - achieved the exact opposite of its announced goal.
— Peter Drucker
A man is a hypocrite only when he affects to take a delight in what he does not feel, not because he takes a perverse delight in opposite things.
— William Hazlitt
Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
— Aaron Sorkin
Dada, a roaring of tense colors, and interlacing of opposites and of all contradictions, grotesques, inconsistencies: LIFE
— Tristan Tzara
Someone once described the information business as exactly the opposite of sex. When it's good, it's still lousy.
— Michael Bloomberg
Repentance, not proper behavior or even holiness, is the doorway to grace. And the opposite of sin is grace, not virtue.
— Philip Yancey
The journey towards oneness emphasizes the opposites and we are caught in their conflict.
— Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
There are sure to be two prescriptions diametrically opposite.
— Henry David Thoreau
Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.
— G.K. Chesterton
I don't think you should make music to make music, just to show that you can. That's the opposite of vitality.
— Bradford Cox
As happy as I am off the floor, on the floor I am the opposite. I don't take any crap.
— Gilbert Arenas
Why do overlook and oversee mean opposite things?
— George Carlin
The invisible hand in politics operates in the opposite direction to the invisible hand in the market.
— Milton Friedman
The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love.
— Albert Camus
Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
— Teresa Of Avila
In myths things always turn into their opposites as one version supersedes the next.
— Samuel R. Delany
A deep truth is a truth so deep that not only is it true but it's exact opposite is also true.
— Niels Bohr
Entertainment and learning are not opposites; entertainment may be the most effective mode of learning.
— Herbert Marcuse
What is needed is not a revolution in the opposite direction, but the opposite of a revolution.
— Joseph De Maistre
life seems to be a collision of opposites.
— Richard Rohr
Whatever you decide is your motivation in the scene, the opposite of that is also true and should be in it.
— Michael Shurtleff
The pair of opposites do not effect a yogi - neither praise nor insult.
— Harbhajan Singh Yogi
The opposite of love is fear, not hate.
— Yoko Ono
Trying to impress others does - usually in quite the opposite way.
— Malcolm Forbes
How is it that in the so-called barbarian ages art was understood, whereas in our age of progress exactly the opposite is true?
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Watching them was like watching the sunset and the sunrise, equally beautiful in different ways.
— Shannon A. Thompson
I need to rebel against myself. It's the opposite of following your bliss. I need to do what I most fear.
— Chuck Palahniuk
Short-term and long-term results typically lead to different result, which are often the opposite.
— Eben Pagan
Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Literature is the opposite of a nuclear bomb.
— Arundhati Roy
I always used to go for blondes and quiet girls, but Victoria is the total opposite - dark and loud.
— David Beckham
Illness is the opposite of freedom. It makes everything impossible.
— Francoise Sagan
Juliette felt a wash of fear and relief, those two opposites twisting together like staircase and rail.
— Hugh Howey
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The universe maintained a balance, moving first one way and then the other in a forever equalizing of opposites.
— Diana Lanham
The artist has to be exactly the opposite [of people singing the song, I've gotta be Me,] and transcend himself as he makes judgements.
— Romare Bearden
When an economist says the evidence is "mixed," he or she means that theory says one thing and data says the opposite.
— Richard Thaler
Suicide is, after all, the opposite of the poem.
— Anne Sexton
We are always seeking our opposite, whether we know it or not. When we discover what that is we can dissolve our arrogance.
— Michio Kushi
We cut up time and space and mind and place and being and non-being. We create a world of ideas. This is duality, pairs of apparent opposites.
— Frederick Lenz
Good and bad are not opposites, they are both just different forms of intensity.
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
We don't have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that's what I want in life.
— Marina Keegan
The opposite of compromise is character.
— Frederick Douglass
Prosperity is the opposite of greedy.
— Harbhajan Singh Yogi
There will always be new opposites, class struggles and uprisings. History has no ending.
— Henning Mankell
Thus, flexibility, as displayed by water, is a sign of life. Rigidity, its opposite, is an indicator of death.
— Anthony Lawlor
PMP was in an almost diametrically opposite situation to Fairfax.
— David Edward Kirk
An actor can play two or three lines where he says one thing, but plays the opposite. That's the most important moving part of a film.
— Jaco Van Dormael
Death is not the opposite of life. Life has no opposite. Death is the opposite of birth.
— Eckhart Tolle
I like to read because it's the opposite of being on the go. Reading is the perfect antidote.
— Joe Strummer
Love and fear are the two opposite ends of the continuum, as far as I'm concerned. When we are not in love, we are in fear.
— Jack Canfield
I don't think anything is the opposite of love.
— Anne Lamott
In excess, most endeavors and possessions take on the characteristics of their opposite.
— Tim Ferriss
Grab a pen and put down some words - your name even - and a title: something to see, to revise, to carve, to do over in the opposite way
— Jacques Barzun
Sometimes Opposites Attract, and find out they're not as opposite as they thought ...
— Allie Brennan
They were the right counterbalance to one another.
— Kelly Moran
We're convinced we need money to have friends and partners, but actually I've found the opposite to be true.
— Mark Boyle
The opposite of security is insecurity, and the only way to overcome insecurity is to take risks.
— Theodore J. Forstmann
If someone else of the opposite sex joins either of you in your favorite recreational activities, you are at risk of falling in love with that person.
— Willard F. Harley
Once you realize how effortless the highest way of life is, it takes tremendous effort to assume the opposite.
— Lester Levenson
The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites.
— Martin Luther King Jr.